Added option to not overwrite app tabs when loading sessions. This does not apply when loading the previous browsing or crashed session at startup since the app tabs are already in those sessions. Be careful using this as it could result in the app tab duplicating if loaded session contains the same app tab.

Added option to hide icon from menu item in tools and app menu.

Added name and url of last closed tab to undo toolbar button.

Added Greek and Slovenian locales

Fixes:

Fixed issue that could prevent the "Save and restore at startup" button from appearing at shutdown.

Fixed issue where open window sessions at the time of a crash would not be saved if user chose to not restore the crashed session.

Update options window if preferences are changed while window is open.

Changed the tools and app menu icon so it should display correctly in OS X.

Fixed potential issue that could occur when importing settings saved under an older version of Session Manager.

When appending tabs to a window, attempt to keep tab grouping. Might not always work since Firefox's grouping functionality doesn't use session data.

Fix for potential compatibility issue with Firefox 7. The change to Firefox 7 might be reverted before it is released, but I fixed my code anyway.

Update toolbar button tooltips when leaving tab groups UI.

When opening multiple windows at startup (for example clicking a link in another program), don't overwrite the additional windows when loading a session at startup.

Fixed issue that caused session window to not open correctly when saving a session with the same default name as an existing session and the "Double clicking an existing session overwrites the session and" setting is set to "replaces the existing session name with the one in the text box".

1. Fixed issued where backup sessions might not be created successfully on shutdown.2. Fixed issued in SeaMonkey where user could not restore closed tabs/windows if Session Manager toolbar was not visible.3. Fixed issue where user could not exit browser after changing encryption setting when there were no saved sessions.4. Added tooltip and URL in status bar (or Firefox 4 status popup) when hovering over closed tab toolbar button and closed tab menu items.

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Version 0.7.5pre
Released March 18, 2011
440.3 kB
Works with
Firefox 3.5 and later, SeaMonkey 2.0 and later

1. Fixed issued where backup sessions might not be created successfully on shutdown.2. Fixed issued in SeaMonkey where user could not restore closed tabs/windows if Session Manager toolbar was not visible.3. Fixed issue where user could not exit browser after changing encryption setting when there were no saved sessions.4. Added tooltip and URL in status bar (or Firefox 4 status popup) when hovering over closed tab toolbar button and closed tab menu items.

Fixed bug introduced in 0.7 when checking to see if user specified session folder is a directory. Would only cause a problem if user specified a file as the user specified session folder.

Fixed issue where continuous errors would popup if user specified a session folder path that did not exist and could not be created. Session Manager will put up a one time error in this case and then use the default session folder.

Fixed exception introduced in 0.7 that could occur when closing last browser window under OS X.

Added Deleted sessions sub-menu and settings. Clicking a session in the deleted group will restore the session. The session can be permanently deleted by right clicking on it and selecting delete. The length of time that deleted sessions are kept is controllable by an option in the "General -> Saving & Restoring" options.

Added ability to change "browser.sessionstore.max_concurrent_tabs" setting in Firefox 4. This setting controls how many tabs to load simultaneously in Firefox 4.

Added URL to tooltip for closed tabs.

Added color coding of the Session Manager toolbar button to tell if there is a window session and/or auto-session loaded: <span style="color:yellow;">yellow</span> for window sessions, <span style="color:aqua;">aqua</span> for window sessions and <span style="color:lawngreen;">lawngreen</span> for both. This can be disabled by setting the extensions.{1280606b-2510-4fe0-97ef-9b5a22eafe30}.do_not_color_toolbar_button hidden preference to true.

Added tooltip to Session Manager toolbar button that lists the current active window and autosave sesisons.

If the preference is set, active session names are now listed in the titlebar in Firefox 4 when menu toolbar is hidden, unless the window is maximized such that tabs are displayed in the titlebar.

Added new larger icons for Firefox 4 add-ons menu.

Added icon to Session Manager menu in tools and application menu.

Added option to not log to console when logging is enabled - extensions.{1280606b-2510-4fe0-97ef-9b5a22eafe30}.logging_to_console

Changes:

If the users selects to use their own session folder, use that folder to store the session files instead of creating a "sessions" folder in that folder.

If a session has no session windows or tabs in it but does have closed window data, restore the closed window. This works around an issue that sometimes occurs at shutdown, where the active window in a backup session is changed into a closed window.

Changes to show URL of closed tabs in Awesome bar in Firefox 4. Also now works with Status-4 Evar add-on.

Sessions with nothing but closed windows are no longer considered empty. They will be backed up.

Fixes:

Fixed major problem when asynchronously reading session files containing Unicode, which would cause Unicode characters to be replaced with garbage characters. Asynchronously reading was introduce in 0.6.9 for enabling/disabling encryption, saving crashed window sessions and doing the one time conversion of Firefox 3 formatted sessions to the new format. Unfortunately there is no way to fix sessions that ended up with garbage characters in them.

Prevent creating a backup session if the browser window is never displayed (i.e. no session is created).

Fixed error that caused the clear undo tabs, windows, all prompt from displaying even if user chose not to display them again.

Fixed bug when checking to see if user specified session folder is a directory. Would only cause a problem if user specified a file as the user specified session folder.

Fixed issue where continuous errors would popup if user specified a session folder path that did not exist and could not be created. Session Manager will put up a one time error in this case and then use the default session folder.

Fixed exception that could occur when closing last browser window under OS X.

Added Deleted sessions sub-menu and settings. Clicking a session in the deleted group will restore the session. The session can be permanently deleted by right clicking on it and selecting delete. The length of time that deleted sessions are kept is controllable by an option in the "General -> Saving & Restoring" options.

Added ability to change "browser.sessionstore.max_concurrent_tabs" setting in Firefox 4. This setting controls how many tabs to load simultaneously in Firefox 4.

Added URL to tooltip for closed tabs.

Added color coding of the Session Manager toolbar button to tell if there is a window session and/or auto-session loaded: <span style="color:yellow;">yellow</span> for window sessions, <span style="color:aqua;">aqua</span> for window sessions and <span style="color:lawngreen;">lawngreen</span> for both. This can be disabled by setting the extensions.{1280606b-2510-4fe0-97ef-9b5a22eafe30}.do_not_color_toolbar_button hidden preference to true.

Added tooltip to Session Manager toolbar button that lists the current active window and autosave sesisons.

If the preference is set, active session names are now listed in the titlebar in Firefox 4 when menu toolbar is hidden, unless the window is maximized such that tabs are displayed in the titlebar.

Added new larger icons for Firefox 4 add-ons menu.

Added icon to Session Manager menu in tools and application menu.

Added option to not log to console when logging is enabled - extensions.{1280606b-2510-4fe0-97ef-9b5a22eafe30}.logging_to_console

Changes:

If the users selects to use their own session folder, use that folder to store the session files instead of creating a "sessions" folder in that folder.

If a session has no session windows or tabs in it but does have closed window data, restore the closed window. This works around an issue that sometimes occurs at shutdown, where the active window in a backup session is changed into a closed window.

Changes to show URL of closed tabs in Awesome bar in Firefox 4. Also now works with Status-4 Evar add-on.

Sessions with nothing but closed windows are no longer considered empty. They will be backed up.

Fixes:

Fixed major problem when asynchronously reading session files containing Unicode, which would cause Unicode characters to be replaced with garbage characters. Asynchronously reading was introduce in 0.6.9 for enabling/disabling encryption, saving crashed window sessions and doing the one time conversion of Firefox 3 formatted sessions to the new format. Unfortunately there is no way to fix sessions that ended up with garbage characters in them.

Prevent creating a backup session if the browser window is never displayed (i.e. no session is created).

Fixed error that caused the clear undo tabs, windows, all prompt from displaying even if user chose not to display them again.

Added Deleted sessions sub-menu and settings. Clicking a session in the deleted group will restore the session. The session can be permanently deleted by right clicking on it and selecting delete. The length of time that deleted sessions are kept is controllable by an option in the "General -> Saving & Restoring" options.

When importing Session Manager settings, some imported settings weren't being reflected in the options window. This has been corrected.

Sessions with no tabs were being marked as corrupted when they are no longer considered so. Zero tab sessions were being created in Firefox 4 (Minefield), but that should no longer occur in the latest nightlies. It can still happen in beta 7 though.

Session Manager 0.6.9 had a bug when reading sessions in certain cases where it wasn't converting the OS newline character to the internally used 0x000a character. This was causing sessions that were converted from Firefox 3 format to become corrupted and disappear. This issue has been fixed and any corrupted sessions will automatically be fixed after 0.6.9.1 is installed so they will be visible again.

Fixed issue with closed tab and window list only showing one entry when that list was not shown in a submenu. Thanks to Alan Baxter.

When importing Session Manager settings, some imported settings weren't being reflected in the options window. This has been corrected.

Sessions with no tabs were being marked as corrupted when they are no longer considered so. Zero tab sessions were being created in Firefox 4 (Minefield), but that should no longer occur in the latest nightlies. It can still happen in beta 7 though.

Session Manager 0.6.9 had a bug when reading sessions in certain cases where it wasn't converting the OS newline character to the internally used 0x000a character. This was causing sessions that were converted from Firefox 3 format to become corrupted and disappear. This issue has been fixed and any corrupted sessions will automatically be fixed after 0.6.9.1 is installed so they will be visible again.

Fixed issue with closed tab and window list only showing one entry when that list was not shown in a submenu. Thanks to Alan Baxter.

Added a "Keep Session Manager window open" check box and only keep the session manager window open if it's checked. The check box is "sticky", so it will default to whatever it was last time the window closed.

Added option to use Firefox's crash prompt.

Added a reset warning option to reset the warnings that people chose to "not show again".

Added ability to import/export settings.

Added support for hot keys. These can be set in the General options preference. Hot keys are required to use at least one modifier if CTRL is used, otherwise more than one modifier is required. Note that hot keys may not work if the hot key sequence is already being used by the browser or other add-ons. Session Manager has no way of checking for this so there won't be any warnings if you enter a hot key that's already in use.

Added separate clear closed tabs and clear closed windows menu items. They are only visible if there are both closed tabs and closed windows in the closed list.

Added indicator in windows/tabs tree to show which tabs are hidden and what groups they are in. Only works in Firefox 4.0b4 and up.

Show warning colors (yellow) and tooltip if permanent private browsing mode is enabled and user wants to backup sessions and/or restore the previous browsing session. Neither will work in permanent private browsing mode.

Added warning alert that saving and backing up sessions won't work if permanent private browsing mode is enabled. This can be disabled.

Show what tabs are hidden and in what groups (if any) in Firefox 4.0b4 and higher since with Tab Candy tabs may not be visible, but will still be saved.

Added option to save backups on browser restart. This was previously a hidden preference.

Allow user to use non-ASCII characters when saving. This allows filenames with non-English characters.

Changes:

Removed all background thread processing from the add-on to prevent crashes. Use asynchronous read (all) and writes (Firefox 3.6 and up) are now used instead. This only affects the "change encryption" and "save crashed window session" processing.

Firefox 4 currently has a tendency to not return valid session data at shutdown so work around this by storing session data at quit-application-granted. This prevents backup and auto-save sessions from being corrupted when existing the browser using File->Exit.

Lessen the restrictions used to determine if a session is marked as corrupted. Sessions with no tabs are now considered "okay" since Firefox 4 can generate them currently. Though they probably aren't that useful.

Checking the "reload" option now causes Session Manager to bypass the browser cache on a load instead of actually doing a reload. This allows the features to work with the new cascading tab loading features in Minefield. It's also faster.

Hide the option to clear closed tabs in SeaMonkey 2.0.x since it doesn't work in that version.

Don't show use browser crash prompt in Firefox 3.0 since it doesn't work there.

Fixes:

Fix for option to restore a closed tab using middle click not working in Minefield.

Fixed loading session at startup in Minefield.

Fixed issue with save prompt, where group name wouldn't clear when clicking on an existing session in a group and then typing in a different session name.

Fixed bug where saving window sessions when resuming from a crash would not work if encryption was enabled.

Fixed bug in "Cache Fixer" that was causing it not to work.

Fixed bug where closing the last open browser window under OS X wasn't saving either the currently open autosave session or a backup session.

Fix clearing all closed tabs at once under SeaMonkey 2.1 beta.

Prevent user from using invalid or O/S restricted file name when saving

Disable accesskey, and buttons when user presses ALT in keyboard options to prevent triggering of other buttons or jumping fields.

Fix error when close window in SeaMonkey.

Checking the "reload" option now causes Session Manager to bypass the browser cache on a load instead of actually doing a reload. This allows the features to work with the new cascading tab loading features in Minefield. It's also faster.

Fix for option to restore a closed tab using middle click not working in Minefield.

Hide the option to clear closed tabs in SeaMonkey 2.0.x since it doesn't work in that version.

Fix clearing all closed tabs at once under SeaMonkey 2.1 beta.

Fix prompting for or loading sessions at browser startup in Minefield.

Fix for browser loading homepage in addition to loaded session at browser startup in Minefield.

# Firefox 4 currently has a tendency to not return valid session data at shutdown so work around this by storing session data at quit-application-granted. This prevents backup and auto-save sessions from being corrupted when existing the browser using File->Exit.

# Lessen the restrictions used to determine if a session is marked as corrupted. Sessions with no tabs are now considered "okay" since Firefox 4 can generate them currently. Though they probably aren't that useful.